Markus Nielbock

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Kj cheetham (talk) 11:07, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Markus Nielbock. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. I noticed you've already put a declaration on your user page, thank you for that. I've also added a tag to the talk page of 3 of the articles you've edited. Kj cheetham (talk) 11:17, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! Is there anything else I can do? The articles Laura Kreidberg, Thomas Henning, and Hans-Walter Rix feature the current directors of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and have been copied from the German Wikipedia. I often noticed a difference in the policies applied by the German and the English Wikipedia. It is common practice to produce Wikipedia articles for all Directors of the Max Planck Society. If there is anything inappropriate about the articles, please let me know or modify them accordingly. Markus Nielbock (talk) 11:33, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Nothing obvious I can think of anyway. I'm not familar at all with German Wikipedia, but being a director of an institution doesn't inherently mean someone is notable, but in this case perhaps they meet criteria 6 of WP:NACADEMIC? Or perhaps they meet other criteria anyway, they'd need to be considered on a case-by-case basis. -Kj cheetham (talk) 18:22, 17 January 2023 (UTC)